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When The Bones Sing
When The Bones Sing | Ginny Myers Sain
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The past three years have been tough for Lucifer’s Creek, Arkansas, a small town quietly tucked away in the Ozark mountains. More than two dozen people have disappeared on the local hiking trails; there one moment, gone the next, not a trace left behind, until their buried bodies are discovered.
17-year-old Dovie doesn’t believe in magic even though she comes from a long line of women who can hear the bones of the dead sing, and for the past few years the bones have been crooning nonstop, calling out to Dovie to dig them up.
Some of the old-timers believe that it’s the monstrous Ozarks howler snatching people off the Aux Arc Trail. Well Dovie doesn’t believe in the howler, and she doesn’t believe her best friend Lo when he tells her he is being haunted by dark shadows. All she believes in is her talent that guides the local sheriff to the bones when they begin their song, then reuniting the dead with their families to give them some peace.
Lo doesn’t know peace, though. The shadows follow him everywhere. He soon learns they’re the murdered hikers and they want answers. But the truth of their deaths isn’t buried with their bones; it’s hidden somewhere deep in the hills. And Lo and Dovie must unearth it before anyone else is killed.
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robinb
robinb
When The Bones Sing | Ginny Myers Sain
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I really enjoyed this book…a bit supernatural, a bit folklore, a bit romantic, a bit adventurous, with a bit of a suspenseful, dark Gothic feel to it.
First, and to me foremost, Sain excelled at her world-building here. I felt the dark but beautiful woods of the rural town of Lucifer‘s Creek, Arkansas tucked into the Ozark Mountains. The location itself felt like a character.
And speaking of characters I fell for Dovie and Lo hook, line and 🔻

robinb sinker. Their complicated and tragic pasts were so very vital to who they were, and I felt them on a personal level that made me care about and become invested in their story. I also loved the juxtaposition of reality to magic and how Dovie and Lo skirted/embraced the two.
The story at its most basic level is about friendship…those deep intertwinings of body and soul that are so visceral and intimate they are hard to describe to others 🔻 2w
robinb (or even to ourselves for that matter).

I found this book very well done on every level. 5/5⭐️ 2w
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TorieStorieS
TorieStorieS
When The Bones Sing | Ginny Myers Sain
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Set in a small town in the Arkansas Ozarks, Dovie doesn‘t believe in magic, despite her own talent for feeling buried bones sing to her. In three years, Dovie has helped the sheriff locate 24 bodies of missing hikers. With no real leads, it falls to Dovie & her best friend to find the culprit, alongside mountain myths, magic & supernatural & natural dangers. It‘s a quick & fun YA thriller! It follows some familiar paths but with surprises too!

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Read_By_Red
Read_By_Red
When The Bones Sing | Ginny Myers Sain
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This is a southern gothic supernatural thriller that hooked me right away. I really enjoyed the characters, especially Lo, but the setting itself was almost a character all its own. She paints such a beautiful and complete picture of the mountains, the streams, the valleys, the caves–along with the magic that they bring–and the Howler as well. While my suspicions about who was responsible was correct, I was nevertheless enthralled by the story.

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RedReviews4You
RedReviews4You
When The Bones Sing | Ginny Myers Sain
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This book was the perfect blend of southern small town supernatural thriller YA fiction. Taken together this is the very definition of great gothic Storytelling! With great surprises and red herrings, this was the Nancy Drew style book my 16 year old self always wanted because it was real, current, imaginatively written and filled with all the longing, sweet kisses and pulse pounding emotions to fill any big screen

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